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  Allergan v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA: Will the Recognized Commercial Success of Restasis® Demonstrate Non-Obviousness? By Sarah A. Kagan At the November 6, 2018, oral arguments at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Allergan and the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe faced off against four generic drug makers[1] who had filed Abbreviated New…

Sarah A. Kagan discusses “Patent Wars: Genome Editing” and the latest developments in the CRISPR patent wars, U Cal v. Broad, in Episode 51 of the JurisDiction podcast. Ms. Kagan wrote an IP Alert article on the case in July. Click here to listen to the podcast.

  Blackbird Techs. v. Niantic, Inc. By Aseet Patel Video game developer Niantic recently experienced a setback in its defense of a patent infringement suit brought by Blackbird Technologies in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. See Blackbird Techs. v. Niantic, Inc., C.A. No. 17-cv-1810 (Del. Oct. 31, 2018). Niantic is best…

  Highlights of Design Law 2018 By Richard S. Stockton and Sean J. Jungels Banner & Witcoff partnered with the George Washington University School of Law and Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox to produce the third Design Patent Symposium, “Design Law 2018.” Several Banner & Witcoff attorneys and staff spoke at and/or attended Design Law…

Azuka C. Dike is featured in Crain’s 2018 Chicago’s Notable Minority Lawyers. The special section of the publication celebrates attorneys who are advancing the causes of justice and equality through their practices and pro bono. Chicago’s Notable Minority Lawyers appears in the November 19 edition of Crain’s Chicago Business, as well as online at ChicagoBusiness.com. Click here to read the…

Apurv Gaurav was elected the Vice President of Programming for the South Asian Bar Association of Washington, D.C. (SABA-DC). SABA-DC is a voluntary bar association dedicated to the needs, concerns and interests of the South Asian American legal community in the Washington, D.C. area. Mr. Gaurav will be sworn in at the SABA-DC Public Interest Gala on November…

Banner & Witcoff received a National Tier 1 ranking in intellectual property litigation, patent litigation and patent law in the 2019 edition of U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers’ “Best Law Firms.” Tier 1 rankings are determined through feedback from clients and peers, as well as from information provided in law firm survey responses.…

  Merck v. Gilead: Fruit of the Rotten Tree? By Sarah A. Kagan The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed in April the holding of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California that a patentee’s unclean hands barred recovery of the $200 million in infringement damages awarded by a…

Kirk A. Sigmon and Scott M. Kelly discuss ways to make the process of getting a high-quality, blockchain-directed patent faster and easier in World Intellectual Property Review. Click here to read, “How to Draft a Killer Blockchain Patent.”  

Pei Wu discusses how a well-devised intellectual property portfolio can go a long way to ensure a startup biotech company’s success in the marketplacein IPWatchdog. Click here to read, “Cost-Effective IP Strategies for Biotech Startups.”